The Spinning House

On 10 December 2024 Caroline Biggs talked to the Mill Road History Society about her new book, The Spinning House, which exposes how the University of Cambridge once imprisoned women suspected of ‘evil.’ Mistakes were made, violence and legal action from the townspeople followed until finally an Act of Parliament was passed to put an end to the jurisdiction of the university over the women of Cambridge.

Caroline grew up in and around Cambridge. She was a former Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she organised the History Festival to address the massive imbalance between historical knowledge about the ‘town’ as opposed to the ‘gown.’ She has studied Creative Non-Fiction at Cambridge University and has an MA in Creative Non-Fiction from UEA.

You can find out more from her blog The Real Cambridge at https://therealcambridge.com/.

https://www.millroadhistory.org.uk